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When the British gained control of many of the Lesser Antilles, they designated Antigua, Montserrat, and the islands to the north as the Leeward Islands. Guadeloupe and the islands to the south were designated as the Windward Islands. Later on, all islands north of Martinique became known as the Leeward Islands. [3]
English: Location map of the Netherlands Antilles (Leeward Islands) Equirectangular projection, N/S stretching 107 %, Geographic limits of the map: N: 18.15° N
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The ABC islands is the physical group of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao, the three westernmost islands of the Leeward Antilles in the Caribbean Sea.These islands have a shared political history and a status of Dutch underlying ownership, since the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 ceded them back to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, as Curaçao and Dependencies from 1815.
The Leeward Islands that lie more to the east are a mainly volcanic island cluster: Bora Bora (Tahitian: Vavaʻu ), known for its tourism industry and World War II -era United States naval base Huahine (Tahitian: Mataʻirea ), the easternmost island of the group; split at high tide into the northern Huahine Nui ("big Huahine") and southern ...